Motivational Quotes

Love

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

37.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

45.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford